Pakistan Railways starts booking consignments for its international container train

Lahore (PPI): Pakistan Railways has started booking consignments for its international container train to be inaugurated on August 14 which would run from Islamabad to Turkey via Tehran. Train being run under Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), will consist of 20 containers with capacity of around 750 tons. Chief Marketing Manager Freight Pakistan Railways Imtiaz Hussain Rizvi said on Tuesday ``we have contacts with traders and hopefully freight for train would be secured by August 10. In case cargo is not obtained as per full capacity till August 10, booking will continue upto Aug 14.'' He hoped traders from Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad would prefer to send their consignments by train as it would take 15 days to reach Turkey against ship which takes about a month. He said first train which is demonstrative one Pakistan Railways accepted same tariff being charged in Turkey & Iran. ``After running first train, we would review it.''